From the peaceful times of the late 1930s, through the German occupation of France, and the liberation of the country in 1944, this documentary presents actual scenes in color of daily civilian life among the French. Here too are footage of Hitler recorded by Eva Braun, military maneuvers documented by Hollywood directors Darryl Zanuck and George Stevens, and celebrity visits by Ernest Hemingway, Edward G. Robinson, and Clark Gable. Though we tend to remember World War II as a series of black and white newsreels, which remove it somewhat from the immediacy of the "real world," color film stock was indeed available both to amateur and professional moviemakers. This French documentaryŚnarrated in EnglishŚcollects color film clips from many sources (many of them never shown before) to present World War II in color, as it happened.